"well you take a left at the maneating plant, go through the maneating bee hives and then wade though the poison lakes until you get to the other door, which is rustd shut, or i could just chuck you over and you could climb through the keyhole, it might work(althought the non-men among you *glances at sandworm* should be able to make it) "

"Gee..." replied al0. "I've never thought about it that way." HE put his hand to his chin and began to rub it in thought. "We usually send the prisoners down there. Really helps keep overcrowding in the prisons to a minimum. But what if it is true? What if all of the women we have tossed down there are still alive, because the maneating plants and bees only eat men?"

"I'm only judging on my experience, but I've never seen such a deficient species.
How did humans make it thru a cycle, even HALF a cycle, without KILLING each other?
You have no special abilities. You're not particularly smart, can hardly smell, can barely see, and you're not even VAGUELY physically or spiritually imposing!
Is there ANYTHING humans do well?"

"fine err well you might be small enough to go through one of the mouseholes in the walls, this place is full of them" AL0 said
"err hate to ask, but if the mouseholes are our size, how big are the mice?"
asked sandworm

Ragnar shook his head. Then he looked straight at Alo. "No go, I'm not buying it."

Alo looked back, his expression innocent, real or otherwise.

"I want the real directions, not the fake ones."

"But they are real!"

"Maybe, but not to anywhere we need to go." He turned to the others. "Think of what he said guys. 'Down there' is referred to as a prison. A prison is a place you put people and things you don't want to get out, not someplace you just pass thru on your way to somewhere else. And you Alo. You say you won't go down there but if that's the way out then you've had to go down there everytime you've come here or left. I doubt you did, That means you know another way where you don't have to. And who's this we? Are there more of you here?"

"well i would love to show you the other way out but theres a slight problem , the reason that i gave you directions down there was because one of the other prisoners nicked the key to the door and ran off down there with it, so if you want to get out thats why i told you to go down there" said al0, only breathing once